A man made a disturbing discovery last week when he visited the grave a recently deceased loved one he had been told was buried at the south suburban Homewood Memorial Gardens cemetery in Thornton township in south suburban Chicago.

Though a cemetery staff member showed Dwayne Cook to a grave they said belonged to his friend Hershal Jordan, Cook suspected that something was awry, CBS Chicago reports. When he took a peek inside the chapel on the cemetery grounds he discovered Jordan's casket sitting in a storage room with 10 others all awaiting burial.

"I couldn't leave it alone," Cook told CBS. "Justice has to be done. This just is not right."

Cook proceeded to call the Cook County Sheriff's Office, which confirmed that 11 unburied bodies -- all public aid burials -- had been sitting, unattended, inside the cemetery chapel for approximately a week. The coffins had not been tampered with or damaged.

But detective Jason Moran notes that, even if that is the case, the cemetery should have notified family members of any delays in the burial of their loved ones.

On Saturday, the 11 caskets received a proper burial, the Chicago Sun-Times reports, and the sheriff's office is now launching an investigation into whether cemetery operators violated any laws, and could subsequently face charges, in the incident.